The Future Is Faster Than You Think

Whenever a new technology offers a tenfold increase in value—cheaper, faster and better—there’s little that can slow it down.

Digitalization: Once a technology becomes digital, meaning once you can translate it into the 1s and 0s of binary code, it jumps on the back of Moore’s Law and begins accelerating exponentially.

By allowing nonexperts to play, an interface allows a technology to scale. And fast.

Sadly, what we’re actually testing is a very narrow bandwidth of skills, many of which have nothing to do with the needs of adult life. Point of fact: When was the last time you factored a polynomial?

Spend time in VR world as an elderly homeless woman and the amount of empathy you feel for the homeless will significantly increase—and that increase remains once you exit the VR world. The technology doesn’t just change how we feel and act in the virtual, but how we feel and act in the actual. In other words, VR unlocks the possibility of an entirely different kind of moral education.

A quarter of the planet’s available landmass is currently used to keep 20 billion chickens, 1.5 billion cattle, and 1 billion sheep alive—that is, until we can kill and eat them.

Compared to fifteen hundred liters required to produce a kilogram of wheat, it takes fifteen thousand liters to produce a kilogram of beef, meaning